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Mean but hilarious roman a clef on the NY artistic & literary scene of the 50s & 60s.DARK HORSEY SAYS- ruthless comic verve- the dedicated, the stupid, the rapacious, the foolish are dissected. Fantastic characters & episodes - all classic, generic, hysterical. The phony, like the poor, will always be with us, says Michael Heywood of this book. People who weren't even in it were distraught that they'd been so pilloried. Sorrentino comes out of Joyce, Wyndham Lewis & Flan O'Brien, via William Carlos Williams & Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy—with a distinct admixture of spleen & bile."Jesus, I love this book!"- Harold Bloom."I can only agree."- Lou Reed |
